Kathryn+Morse


 * SUMMARY: Kathryn Morse, age 21, died September 3, 1970 after an abortion performed at Bel Air Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles County, CA.**

After California legalized [|abortion] on demand in 1970, a Texas company began selling abortion referrals and air fare. Twenty-year-old Kathryn M. Morse was one customer.

Kathryn was admitted to Bel Air Memorial Hospital in LA County on September 1, 1972. (Until //Roe v. Wade//, California abortions were performed in hospitals, and many hospitals opened specializing in abortion.) John Dupont initiated a [|saline]abortion on her. Kathryn developed a 102 degree fever, then expelled the dead baby just after midnight on September 3. Kathryn's blood pressure rose, she went into shock, and was pronounced dead by Dupot at 9:40 AM. An autopsy found [|sepsis], and gangrene of the ovary.

The abortion lobby would tell you that although Kathryl's death is tragic, far more women would die if abortion wasn't legal. The facts simply don't support that assertion. As you can see from the graph below, abortion deaths were falling dramatically before legalization. This steep fall had been in place for decades. To argue that legalization lowered abortion mortality simply isn't supported by the data.



Source: LA County Coroner Report 72-9587

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